Distribution of the Aboriginal Population of Michigan

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by  by W. B. Hinsdale

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DISTRIBUTION OF INDIAN POPULATION OF MICHIGAN WITH RF.FERENCE TO THF. NATURAL FORESTS, GREAT
LAKES, AND STREAMS BEFORE AND DURING THE FIRST WHITE OCCUPANCY
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OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF
ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
No. 2
DISTRIBUTION OF
THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION
OF MICHIGAN
BY
W. B. HINSDALE
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
June 10, 1932
© 1932 by the Regents of the University of Michigan
The Museum of Anthropology
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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AcKNOWLEDGMENTs 1
GENERAL STATEMENT 2
PoPULATION AND FooD 6
IMPORTANT SouRcEs OF FooD 12
Animal . 12
Vegetable 19
SPECIAL SITUATIONS 29
Chippewa County 30
Saginaw Valley . 30
Newaygo County 31
Roscommon County 32
Berrien County • 32
From the Saginaw and Shiawassee to the Scioto and Great
Miami 33
Isle Royale 33
The Indians and the Dunes 33
Fort Building 34
DEFICIENCY OF THE MAP 35

DISTRIBUTION OF THE ABORIGINAL
POPULATION OF MICHIGAN
AcKNOWLEDGMENTs
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RATEFUL acknowledgment is made to Mr. Lloyd
R. Gates, Instructor in the Department of Hygiene
and Public Health, of the University of Michigan, and to
Miss Nellie Bosma, formerly of the Department of Zoology,
University of Michigan, now at Beaver College, Jenkin
town, Pennsylvania, for technical estimates upon food val
ues; to Prof. Jethro 0. Veach, Research Associate, Soils,
Michigan State College, to Mr. Raphael Zon of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, whose maps entitled "Recon
struction of Original Forest Cover Based on Soil Maps" and
the "Atlas of American Agriculture" respectively, have, with
the map "Original Forests of Michigan" compiled from
Land Office field notes, served as bases for my forest map
entitled "Distribution of Indian Population of Michigan
with reference to the natural forests, Great Lakes, and
streams before and during the first white occupancy."
Special mention should be made of the kindness of
Mr. Verne H. Church, Agricultural Statistician for Michi
gan, of the State Department of Agriculture, Lansing, Mich
igan, for permission to use his map entitled "Corn in
Michigan 1919" appearing in Michigan Agriculture-Sta
tistical Analysis, June 1, 1922, which indicates the distribu
tion of corn culture in Michigan. The Department of
Botany of the University of Michigan, the University Her
barium, the Division of Mammals, the Division of Birds,
and the Division of Fishes of the :Museum of Zoology, and
the Division of Ethnology of the Museum of Anthropology